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Spoken word audio transcripts rely on heavily flawed robots

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In a desperate bid for search engine optimization, creators feed their rambling conversations into artificial intelligence transcribers. The result is a bizarre, poetic mangling of human speech where technical jargon and regional accents are hilariously translated into complete gibberish by confused algorithms.

Spoken word audio transcripts rely on heavily flawed robots
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